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In times that feel heavy and uncertain, how do we keep showing up without burning out? How do we cope with the emotional and psychological toll of living day-to-day life within a polycrisis of urgent, overlapping, and simultaneous tipping points in all realms: environmental, economic, political, and social?”

This work is long, demanding, and deeply human. As we change the system, we also need to care for ourselves and one another.

Join Move to Amend’s 6-part series,
The Way Through: Building Resilient, Sustainable Activists —
a space to meet overwhelm, anger, and despair with compassion, and to transform them into grounded, collective action for a healthier, safer world.

• Mondays | 7:30pm ET/ 6:30 pm CT/ 5:30 pm MT/ 4:30pm PT/ 2:30 PM HAW
• Every 3 weeks: 1/26–5/11
• 75-minutes each, focused and supportive
• Attend the full series or any individual sessions
• Open to activists and anyone who is struggling and wondering, “But what can I do?”

Each session focuses on one section of The Way Through, the newest module from our Movement Education Program (MEP), offering tools to sustain ourselves — and our movements — for the long haul.

Because movements don’t survive on strategy alone — they survive on cultures of care.

Session Schedule:
Jan 26 - Grief, Anger & Emotional Resilience
Feb 16 - What You Love, Your Core Values, and Personal Strengths
Mar 9 - Transforming Emotions into Action: Grief, Anger, Despair & Motivation
Mar 30 - Socialization & Liberation: Breaking Free from Oppressive Societal Norms
April 20 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 1)
May 11 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 2)
Download an outline of the course here

On October 2020 we held a participatory People's Movement Assembly (PMA) with over a hundred people from across the country who came together to discuss why and how we need to democratize the United States Constitution. 

The 2020 People’s Movement Assembly was a catalyst -- the beginning of something big -- and we invite you to sign up below to stay up to date on all things related to this project!

During the 2020 PMA we collectively identified that:

• We are in a moment of converging crises - Climate collapse, global uprisings against state violence and police brutality, and a global pandemic when most are without access to healthcare.
  
  
• What's happening now is rooted in the values defined in (or missing from) the US Constitution - An undemocratic and ultra-powerful judicial branch, lack of human rights protections, no right to vote, and a whole lot of racist language just to name a few.
  
  
• Bold, systemic change is needed - We have to know our power and be able to think outside of what we’ve been told is possible. It’s going to take courage, audacity, and a whole lot of learning and conversations to make it happen. But the only thing we have to lose is our chains. 
  
  
• We have to have a vision and a plan - We learned that when constitutions around the world are re-imagined (on average other countries rewrite their constitutions every 19 years!) they’re more democratic when the Movement has a clear vision of what they want in their constitution. We have been building this vision for over ten years, and we continued it this weekend. 
  
  
• People want a constitution that protects human rights, not just property rights. We like a lot of what’s in the Bill of Rights, (with some changes and exceptions), but the rights should extend further. People want a right to healthcare, housing, rights of nature, gender equity, a right to vote, and a whole lot more. 
  
  
• We don't have to start from scratch. We can get over American exceptionalism and take inspiration from the constitutions of other countries, the UN Declaration on Human Rights, and the 2nd Bill of Rights proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

We have a lot of political muscle to build to be prepared to democratize the constitution. We’re not proposing Move to Amend are the ones to do it alone, nor that it should be done right now. But there are people who want to restrict rights and create room for more authoritarianism, and they’re planning for a constitutional convention. We need to have a plan too. If we don’t, things aren't going to turn out well.

We’re moving forward on this work, we’re creating a strategy, and if you liked the 2020 PMA, there’s a lot more where that came from. Sign up below to stay up to date on the latest news and future People's Movement Assemblies and our Toward a People's Constitution program.